Configuring a Failover threshold

To configure a failover threshold:

1. Go to the Alert Center Home page:
   • From the web interface, click GO. The GO menu appears.
   • If the WhatsUp section is not visible, click WhatsUp. The WhatsUp section of the GO menu appears.
   • Select Alert Center. The Alert Center Home page appears.
   • Click Manage Thresholds. The Alert Center Threshold Library appears.
2. Click New. The Select Threshold Type dialog appears.
3. Select Failover, then click OK. The New/Edit Failover Threshold dialog appears
4. Specify or select the appropriate information in the dialog fields.

   Specify a Name for the threshold; this name is displayed as the threshold's workspace report title on the Alert Center Home page.

   Description

   As you specify the desired threshold criteria settings, this description updates to verbally illustrate the threshold you have configured.

   Threshold

   Select the desired threshold criteria variables and values. You can configure the threshold to alert you when any event occurs, when an error occurs, or when an informational event occurs. By default, the threshold is configured to alert you when any event has occurred in Failover.

   Notification

   Select the notification policy you would like to apply to this threshold. This policy begins sending notifications when an item falls out of the threshold you configure above. If you do not see an appropriate threshold policy, or if the list is empty, browse (...) to the Notification Policy dialog to configure a new policy.

   Note: It is not required that you select a notification policy for use with every threshold. If you do not select a notification policy, no notifications are generated for the threshold, but a workspace report with the out of threshold items will still appear on the Alert Center Home page.

   Threshold check

   Enter a value for the threshold check interval, or the interval at which the Alert Center checks the WhatsUp Gold database to see if there are items that are out of the threshold's parameters. The default polling interval is 5 minutes.

5. Click OK to save changes.

See Also Configuring system thresholds Configuring a Blackout Summary threshold Configuring a WhatsUp Health threshold